PgcEdit

• Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Current version
  • Documentation
  • Third-party guides
  • Installation
  • Download
  • Plugins
  • Third-party tools
  • Command line arguments
  • Please donate
  • Contact
  • Known Bugs
  • Recommended programs

• Introduction

  

  PgcEdit is a DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure.
  PgcEdit is also an excellent tool to learn how a DVD works, with his powerful Trace function.
  Since v0.6.0, PgcEdit is also the first program able to burn a Double Layer DVD-Video on DL DVD+R or DL DVD-R, with an interactive interface (including a preview), to select the position of the layer break.

  PgcEdit is free and open source (GPL license).

• Current version

  The current PgcEdit version is 8.6 (January 12, 2008)

• Documentation

  • GPL License (translations)

  • PgcEdit reference manual. V2, for PgcEdit 0.5.7 final. Thanks to Blutach for his great help!

  • Version history

  • Screenshots: Main window, PGC parameters Editor, Trace mode

  • Manuel de PgcEdit (Ancienne documentation en français, totalement obsolete. SVP, utilisez aussi le manuel anglais.)

  Useful links:

  • Tcl regular expressions (used by the find functions): See the official description, or this handy table.

  • Tcl math functions (for the Tcl calculator/converter): See the 'expr' command official description.

  • Glossary of DVD Terms.

• Third party guides

  • In english:
    • 2COOL's PgcEdit Guides New "Blanking a Cell with PgcEdit" guide, and "Removing Language Selection and Aspect Ratio Menus" updated (v3.0)!

    • 2COOL's Jump2PGC guide and his helper application jump2pgc.exe. Download guide and helper (with helper version 1.55)

    • There are also some 2COOL's movie specific ripping guides using PgcEdit on the Doom9 forum. See 2COOL's Cheat Sheets & Guides List.

    • Jeanl's Guides for PgcEdit Jumping straight to the movie (or the menu), and Skipping annoying stuff (FBI warnings, previews, logos), using the new Trace mode of PgcEdit v0.4!

    • How to use PgcEdit’s Remapping and Restoring Functions by blutach, about the major new functions of PgcEdit v8.

    • How to burn ISO images with PgcEdit ensuring 32k gaps between IFOs and BUPs Version 2, updated for PgcEdit v7.2! Courtesy of Blutach. (Discussion thread at Doom9 here)

    • How to burn Double Layer Disks with PgcEdit Version 2, updated for PgcEdit v7.2! Courtesy of Blutach. (Discussion thread at Doom9 here)

    • How to use PgcEdit’s Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert Feature Courtesy of Blutach.

    • Adding Back Original Menus to a DVD Shrink/Nero Recode Re-authored DVD with PgcEdit and VobBlanker Courtesy of Blutach. (Definitive version.)

    • How to save even more Mb by just displaying the cast in the credits (as a still without audio) Courtesy of Blutach.

    • How to use PgcEdit’s Search & Replace Plugin Courtesy of Blutach. (discussion thread)

    • Importing selfmade menus to episode DVDs done with DVD Shrink (using DVD-Lab Pro and PgcEdit) Courtesy of Chetwood. (Discussion thread)

    • Guide to use a custom made menu for episodes DVDs by Omarios. (Another method to import a selfmade menu, requiring no VM commands editing!)

    • Menuing DVD compilations easy, courtesy of Bjs.

    • Adding a still frame presentation menu on a DVDShrink reauthored DVD (Discussion thread) - Version française (texte simplifié seulement)

    • How to disable a menu button with PgcEdit's menu editor A clean animated flash guide by Rippraff.

    • Guide to Joining DVD's A draft guide by Zacoz on how to merge two DVDs while preserving menus with PgcEdit.

    • Change default audio streams with PgcEdit by UncasMS.

    • Geoff Pell wrote many tutorials for the Video Friends Forum. Most of them are dedicated to Pinnacle Studio, but there are also good introductions to PgcEdit:
      • Generic Guide - PgcEdit - Getting started (PDF)
      • Generic Guide - PgcEdit - Loading the files (PDF)
      • Generic Guide - PgcEdit - Project planning (PDF)
      • Generic Guide - PgcEdit - Familiarisation (PDF)
      • PGC demonstration project (PDF)
      • PGC basic editing (PDF)
      • Play All or Select (PDF)
      • Modifying the Layer Change position (PDF)
      • Using PgcEdit to make a Video Loop Continuously (PDF)
      • Produce a DVD with Options to Play ALL once OR Loop ALL endlessly (PDF)
      • Play the Menu Once Before Playing the Video Automatically (PDF)
      • Last but not least, Geoff wrote also a big guide with a lot of useful informations.
        It can be downloaded here: PgcEdit Guide Kit (Public) (Zipped PDF, 15MB.)
        The example DVD (necessary to follow the examples in the guide) can be downloaded here: PgcEdit_Guide_Samples (46MB.)
        Post comments and suggestions about this guide in this thread.
        Please note that there are several errors in this first version (notably with the cells type flags and the usage of some illegal commands.) These errors will be fixed soon...
        Thanke very much, Geoff, for your huge work!

    • The VideoHelp's list of PgcEdit's guides is also handy.

    • A search for PgcEdit on Doom9 forum may be useful, too.
    
    
  • In czech:
    • Thanks to wencaS, you can find a lot of useful informations in czech here, including guides, translations of the plugins, and much more!
    
    
  • In dutch:
    • DVD's backuppen; de beste manier [Deel 3] by DeeD2k2.

    • Een Play All script voor een Studio DVD-image met PgcEdit by Johan de Jong.

    • Switched Menu's met Pinacle Studio en PgcEdit by Johan de Jong.
    
    
  • In german:
    • PgcEdit - Deutsche Version Not really a documentation site, but you can now use PgcEdit in your language if you wish! Thanks to the german translation team!

    • Unfortunately, at the request of the author, I have removed the german PDF guides by Tobi. Sorry!
    
    
  • In japanese:
    • PgcEdit - Japanese Version. Untested!

    • PgcEdit: Basic concepts

    • How to burn ISO images with PgcEdit ensuring 32k gaps between IFOs and BUPs

    • How to burn Double & Dual Layer Disks with PgcEdit by taka702.

    • Adding Menus to a DVD Shrink Re-authored DVD with PgcEdit and DVD Styler

    • Using Title Menu Button to Skip Titles in Re-authored DVD Shrink Movies (for PgcEdit 0.1.2 - outdated)

    • PgcEdit FAQ

  • In spanish:
    • Tutorial de Reauthoría by David Star.
    
    

• Installation of PgcEdit

  PgcEdit is written in Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk is an interpreted scripting language. It is therefore necessary in theory to have a Tcl/Tk interpreter to use PgcEdit. Windows don't have such an interpreter.
  PgcEdit.exe is an executable containing the Tcl/Tk interpreter and its libraries, as well as the scripts constituting the PgcEdit application. It is not an installer.

  • Installation of PgcEdit.exe (under Windows)

    To install PgcEdit, simply copy PgcEdit.exe in a folder of your choice, such as "C:\Program Files\PgcEdit\".
    Then, launch PgcEdit.exe and see the 'Options/Install' menu: it allow to automatically create the shortcut icons and the files associations.

    Note that the first time PgcEdit is run, it will create a "bin" directory in the same folder as PgcEdit.exe. Therefore, you need write permissions on the install folder, at least when PgcEdit is run for the first time, and when a new version is run for the first time.

    To install a new version, just overwrite PgcEdit.exe with the new file. The bin directory will be updated automatically the first time the new version is run.

    To uninstall PgcEdit, simply use the 'Options/Install/Uninstall PgcEdit' menu. This will remove the shortcuts, the files associations and the configuration files. Then, delete PgcEdit.exe.

    Note: On some foreign systems (for example corean systems), the executable may not start when you double-click on the icon. To fix this problem, you have to put PgcEdit.exe in a path containing only standard ASCII characters.
    You can now also use the command line arguments or an environment variable to specify the character encoding scheme needed by your system. See the Command line arguments section below.

  • Special note for Windows Vista users

    Microsoft has released its very bad Vista operating system. Unfortunately, some guys want to use it!
    Although PgcEdit works relatively well under Vista, there are some things you should consider.

    • The standard system yes/no/ok/cancel dialogs are now handled differently by Vista. As a consequence, some PgcEdit dialogs are now too big to fit entierly on small screens, and the buttons are outside the screen! PgcEdit has now a fix for that problem. The standard dialogs have been replaced by new dialogs I have written.
    • The "faster mkisofs.exe" used by the burn function of PgcEdit doesn't work under Vista. It is recommended to burn your DVD-Video files with ImgBurn, as it has now all features of the burn function of PgcEdit. However, if you still want to use PgcEdit to burn your DVDs, you have to replace mkisofs.exe by the original version requiring cygwin1.dll. That version of mkisofs is available in the ImgTool Classic (not ImgTool Burn!) package, available here. Be sure to change the path to mkisofs.exe in the burn setup dialog, and leave sygwin1.dll in the same folder, as this DLL is required by this version of mkisofs.
    • Let me know if you find other problems with Vista!

  • Installation of PgcEdit (under Linux)

    There is now a standalone executable for Linux. With this standalone, you don't need to have Tcl/Tk installed anymore. You may copy the executable in a directory (preferably somewhere in your path), then do "chmod a+x PgcEdit" to make it executable.

    Note that the first time PgcEdit is run, it will create a "bin" directory in the same folder as PgcEdit.exe. Therefore, you need write permissions on the install folder, at least when PgcEdit is run for the first time, and when a new version is run for the first time.

    To install a new version, just overwrite PgcEdit.exe with the new file. The bin directory will be updated automatically the first time the new version is run.

  • Installation of PgcEdit under Mac OSX

    • Under Mac OSX 10.3 or more, you should install the Apple's X11User package (located on the OSX install DVD/CDs), and download the MacOSX Starter application once (the latest version includes MKISOFS 2.01). Then, download the latest PgcEdit source files, and put the PgcEdit_source folder in the Starter folder. Note that you may have to rename the source folder to "PgcEdit_source". To launch PgcEdit, double click on the "PgcEdit Starter" icon.

      With the new starter app (v0.5a), the X11 version is started by default. If you want to use the aqua version instead of the X11 version, you must rename the "PgcEdit Starter" file to "PgcEdit Starter aqua".

      To update PgcEdit, simply replace the PgcEdit_source folder by the new version.

      See the "Welcome, Read Me" file in the Starter application for detailed installation instructions.

      Note that the Preview functions are still not available under Macintosh.

    • To install Tcl/Tk under Mac OSX 10.2, there are two solutions. The first one uses X11, while the other uses the native Aqua interface. The X11 version is highly recommended, because the Aqua version has many bugs, and is not well supported by PgcEdit.

      • Installation of Tcl/Tk for X11

        The easiest way to install Tcl/Tk for X11 is to use Fink. Download Fink at fink.sourceforge.net and install it. Then, open the terminal (or use FinkCommander.)
        To install Tcl/Tk, type "sudo apt-get install tcl/tk". This will download the compiled version for MacOSX.
        Or type "fink install tcltk" to compile the sources (which takes some time.)

      • Installation of Tcl/Tk Aqua

        A Tcl/Tk Aqua compatible distribution may be downloaded at tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net.
        There are three different versions : TclTkAquaBI (Batteries-Included), TclTkAqua and TclTkAquaStandalone. It is more easy to use TclTkAquaStandalone, because this distribution allow to launch PgcEdit by clicking on the icon, without the need to open the terminal.
        The installation est straightforward : open the disc image, and copy "Wish Shell" on your hard disk.

      • X11 or Aqua ?

        What are the differences between the two versions ?

        Tcl/Tk Aqua uses the MacOSX native interface and is more easy to launch. Unfortunately, the Tcl/Tk Aqua project is still in development and there are some bugs in the display and the behaviour of PgcEdit. The Tk-Aqua version distributed by Apple with OSX 10.4 is still very buggy. The PgcEdit's GUI will therefore not always be perfectly rendered. In particular, the 'tearoff menus' are not working correctly. You may need to rezise the window and change the fonts (in the Options menu) to display the interface correctly.

        Tcl/Tk for X11 has a look less "MacOSX", and needs the terminal to launch PgcEdit, but in the other hand the GUI is bug free, and more reactive.
        This version is therefore more "robust", and is the best (and only?) way to use PgcEdit under MacOSX.

      • MKISOFS: To use the Create ISO function of PgcEdit, you will need to compile mkisofs 2.1 for your system, and install the executable in your path.

      • Starting PgcEdit

        Tcl/Tk X11 : launch X11 and type in the xterm window "/sw/bin/wish "full path to PgcEdit.tcl"".

        Tcl/Tk Aqua : launch "Wish Shell", then go to the "File -> Source" menu, and select PgcEdit.tcl.

        See also the "Welcome, Read Me" file in the starter application.

  • Installation of the sources (under Linux, Mac or Windows)

    You will have to make sure that you have Tcl/Tk version 8.4 (or more). You must then install the sources of the script. The 'Options/Install' menu will not be present, even under Windows, and you will have to complete the installation manually.

    Command line:
$ wish PgcEdit.tcl [optional path to VIDEO_TS.IFO]

    Under Unix, you can make PgcEdit.tcl executable directly with:
$ chmod a+x PgcEdit.tcl
$ mv PgcEdit.tcl pgcedit
    You may also have to add the install directory to your path. Then use this command line to launch PgcEdit:
$ pgcedit [optional path to VIDEO_TS.IFO]
    See the Command line arguments section below for more information.

    The sources of PgcEdit are contained in PgcEdit.exe (in the PGCEDIT folder). You can extract them with an unzip program, such as WinZip. You may also download the source files alone.

    The web site of Tcl/Tk is www.scriptics.com
    Tcl/Tk for Windows (ActiveTcl): www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
    FreeWrap (.exe generator): sourceforge.net/projects/freewrap/

  • Installation of the documentation (all platforms)

    The old, obsolete english and french text files are not included in the PgcEdit distribution anymore.

    The new documentation files should be placed within a "doc" folder in the PgcEdit installation folder. This way, you will be able to launch the documentation from PgcEdit's Help -> Documentation menu.

    Under Windows, if a file called PgcEdit_Manual.chm is found in the doc folder, it is used.

    Under all platforms (including under Windows if the CHM file is not found), the file doc/PgcEdit_Manual.htm is used.

    If that file cannot be found, the file PgcEdit_Manual.txt is used instead. (This allows french users to place the old french doc file in the doc folder, and use it instead of the new english doc.)

    If PgcEdit cannot find one of these files, it will display the online HTML documentation stored on the VideoHelp homepage.

• Download PgcEdit

  • Windows

    Download PgcEdit.exe (not compressed) or pgcedit_winexe.zip (zipped).
    Download the PgcEdit reference documentation (Windows .CHM help file, zipped). (This file is now zipped, to bypass a bug in Windows XP SP2 with locked downloaded files.)

  • Linux

    Download the pgcedit standalone executable (not compressed), or, if you have Tcl/Tk 8.4 or more installed on your system, download the PgcEdit source files (zipped).
    Download the PgcEdit reference documentation (HTML version, zipped).

  • Mac OSX 10.3 or more

    Download once the PgcEdit starter application v0.5a (Updated with MKISOFS v2.1, needed for the Create ISO function) and the latest PgcEdit source files, and put them in the starter folder.
    Download the PgcEdit reference documentation (HTML version, zipped).
    If you don't use the new starter app v0.5a, you need to copy mkisofs 2.01 for MacOSX 10.3 or more in your path to use the Create ISO function.

  • Mac OSX 10.2 or less

    You will have to install Tcl/Tk-X11 (on Mac OS 9 or below), or compile Tk-X11 (on OSX 10.2 - See the Readme in the PgcEdit starter application), and install the PgcEdit source files and the PgcEdit reference documentation manually.
    You will need to compile mkisofs 2.01 or more (which is a part of cdrtools) for your system, if you want to use the Create ISO function.

  • All versions folder

    All versions (including sources, Windows and Linux executables, PgcEdit_Preview sources, MACOSX_Starter, mkisofs for MacOSX 10.3, alternate icon sets, doc files, etc..., zipped).

  • Alternate icons

    Alternate set of icons for the toolbar, courtesy of Sweetness. Preview (screenshot)
    To use them, download the sweetness_icons_2.zip file and extract the files in an "icons" subdirectory in the PgcEdit's installation folder.

    If you want to create your own set of icons, look at the INSTALL.txt file included in the archive. And please send them to my email address. I may distribute them here as well. Thanks in advance.

  • Miscellaneous

    Download the Test-SPRM-7 tiny DVD, used to check if your player holds the PTT (chapter) number or the Program number in SPRM 7. (This test DVD is useful to setup the virtual player for Trace mode). PAL version NTSC version

  • Czech Version of PgcEdit

    Download the czech version of PgcEdit here.

  • Deutsche Version of PgcEdit

    Download the german version of PgcEdit here.

  • Japanese Version of PgcEdit

    Download the japanese version of PgcEdit here.

• Plugins

  Since version 0.6.1, a plugin mechanism has been added to PgcEdit. This way, you may download the plugins you really need.
  To use a plugin, download the ZIP archive, extract the tcl file, and put it in the "plugins" folder located in the PgcEdit's installation folder. If you have installed at least one plugin, a new Plugins menu will be available in PgcEdit.

  • Auto comment plugin v1.0 Adds some automatic comments in the PGC labels. Currently marks the PGCs without pre, post and cell commands as void.

  • Celltimes plugin v1.0 Converts a Celltimes.txt file from frame numbers to time codes, or vice varsa.

  • DVDShrink plugin v2.6 Useful to improve the navigation capabilities of a DVD created by DVDShrink in reauthor mode. V2 has a new function, "Redo Authoring", to recreate completely the authoring from scratch. V2.5 has a totally new function to "Enhance and fix authoring" of the DVDShrink compilations in re-author mode, more standard compliant. You can now also use the arrow keys to skip to the previous or next title.
    This plugin has also a function to check if the DVDShrink option "Logical remapping of enabled streams" can be used safely for the current DVD.

  • LU (menu Language Unit) plugin v1.1 Allow you to change the language code of current Language Unit. V1.1 has a new function to clone a language unit.

  • Play All PGC plugin v1.3 Unlike the "New 'Play All' PGC" function available in PgcEdit, this plugin scans the VOB files to find all VOB cells, and builds a new PGC referencing all available cells. It can also build a PGC containing only the VOB cells that are not referenced in the other PGCs, and find all unreferenced VOB cells. This plugin is handy to retrieve lost cells from the VOB files.

  • PUO plugin v1.4 Function to import/export, set and clear the Prohibited User Operations, including a function to clear all PUOs in all VOBs of the current DVD. The import/export PUOs functions are useful if you want to keep the original PUOs of a DVD ripped by DVD-Fab Decrypter.

  • Search and Replace plugin v2.6 Searches a regular expression in VM command's [hexadecimal codes] of specific parts of the DVD and filter the matching commands through a pattern. (This function is not easy to master, and should not be used by beginners.)
    Major update: in v2, the replace string can now contain complex mathematical expressions. A preset menu has been added, with a preset to convert the SetGPRMMD commands to standard Set commands. Since v2.6, it is possible to search in specific areas only.
    Blutach's guide and its discussion thread.

  • Time Maps plugin v1.3 A function to verify the time maps (VTS_TMAPTI tables) of all Titles of the DVD, with an option to rebuild the missing or wrong tables.

  • VOBU plugin v1.3 With this plugin, you can change the entry VOBU sector and the last VOBU sectors of any PGC. Handy to skip intros, logos, credits embedded in the main movie. Please note that this method is not standard compliant, and may fail with some players!

  • Womble plugin v1.1 Creates .MBS and .MSL files for Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD. MBS files are necessary to import a titleset made of several VOBs in WMVW-DVD. MSL files are bookmark/chapter lists in the Womble format. This plugin is useless if you don't use WMVW.

  • XiRON plugin v1.2 I wrote this plugin for me, to fix the numerous authoring errors of my cheap and very bad XiRON RW3HDD 80GB recorder. I will probably NOT continue to develop it, and I provide no support for this plugin. Use it at your own risk! This plugin is useless if you are not un unlucky owner of a XiRON recorder.

  • Download all plugins in one zip file! (updated with the latest versions of the plugins)

  • All Plugins folder

  • Most of the plugins have been translated in deutsch and are available on the PgcEdit - Deutsche Version site.

• Third-party tools

  • DVD Menu Button Swapper A tool to swap the menu buttons in a .mnu file exported by PgcEdit with the Export Whole Menu function, courtesy of Lazer. (Since a comparable functionality is now included in PgcEdit, this tool is now somewhat obsolete.)

• Command Line Arguments

  Windows syntax:
  PgcEdit [/E:encoding] ["dvd_folder_or_file_name"]
  
  Linux and Mac OSX syntax:
  PgcEdit [-e:encoding] ["dvd_folder_or_file_name"]
  or, if you use the source code and the Tcl/Tk interpreter:
  wish PgcEdit.tcl [-e:encoding] ["dvd_folder_or_file_name"]
  
  
  • /E=encoding or -e=encoding
    Specify the character encoding used by your system.
    On some foreign systems using accented characters, it might be necessary to specify this option if PgcEdit cannot handle the path and file names containing accented or special characters properly.
    Unfortunately, as far as I know, it is not possible to specify the encoding automatically. So, you will have to check which encoding is compatible with your system. The default encoding, cp1252, is suitable for all systems using only standard ASCII characters in the filenames.
    To display a list of all available encodings, use the /? or -h command line argument.
    Note: It is also possible to define the encoding through the global environment variable PGCEDIT_ENCODING.
  • dvd_folder_or_file_name
    If another argument is provided, PgcEdit uses it to open a DVD automatically at startup.
    The argument must be the path of the root or the VIDEO_TS folder of a decrypted DVD, or one of the IFO, BUP or VOB file of the DVD.
  • /? or -h
    Displays the command line syntax, and the list of all available character encoding schemes.

• Please donate

  To support future PgcEdit development, please make a donation. Thanks!
  

• Contact

  Please post your feedback, suggestions and bug reports on the Doom9 forum, in this thread. Thanks.
  Old discussion threads: PgcEdit v 0.1, PgcEdit v 0.2, PgcEdit v 0.3, PgcEdit v 0.4, PgcEdit v 0.5, PgcEdit v 0.6.0 (and 0.6.1 beta), PgcEdit v 0.6.1 to 0.6.4, PgcEdit v 7.

  You may also write (in french or english) to:
  
  NOTE: The old email addresses at tiscali.be and scarlet.be are no longer valid! Please use the address above.
  
  Please use mail only for messages not relevant to the forum, for bug reports and job opportunities. Use the forum to post DVD technical questions! I can't reply to all messages personnaly, and other users may benefit from your experience. Thanks.

  If you need to submit a bug, please provide the following information:

  • The version of PgcEdit you are using.
  • Whether or not you are using the standalone PgcEdit.exe. If not, add the Tcl/Tk version number (you can see it in the Help/About menu).
  • The platform (for example Windows XP, Linux...) you are running PgcEdit on.
  • If the program is crashing with an error message, the full text of this error message (you may have to click on the "Details >>" button of the error dialog box to see it).
  • If you are in trouble with a specific DVD, please send me the original IFOs (an archive with the PgcEdit_backup folder).
  • Try to describe exactly what you were doing when the problem occured, and how to reproduce it.

• Known Bugs (and Workarounds)

  • If there are foreign characters in the directory names of the install path, PgcEdit may not start.
    Also, if you install external executables in a path with foreign characters, PgcEdit may not be able to launch them.
    So, avoid foreign characters in the path of PgcEdit, of the tools you want to use via the Tool menu, and in the install path of ImgTool Classic, Daemon Tools and ImgBurn, or the burn function may fail.
    Since v8.6, it is possible to specify the character encoding used by your system via the command line or an environment variable. See the Command line arguments section above.

  • Sometime, a button or menubutton (with drop-down options) do not work when you click it. This is probably a Tk bug, under Windows only.
    You may recover the usage of the button simply by clicking elsewhere on the window background or title bar.

  • If you copy something in the clipboard with PgcEdit, the clipboard is emptied when PgcEdit is closed. This is the normal Tcl/Tk behaviour.
    To copy/paste from one DVD to another one, you should open two instances of PgcEdit at the same time.

  • In Trace mode, when you click the Load button to reset the trace state, it is necessary to wait a little bit (around one second) before clicking the Step or Run button, or a wrong command may be logged, and an error may even occur.
    In this case, just click the Load button again.

  • Virus warning: Some very picky antivirus programs (notably McAfee) are reporting that PgcEdit.exe or PSKill.exe is a potentially unwanted program (not a virus!)
    This is because PSKill.exe originally written by Sysinternals and now owned by Microsoft is embedded in the PgcEdit executable. Though PSKill can be used to remotely kill processes, it is used by PgcEdit only to kill the MKISOFS process when the user aborts the ISO creation when burning a DVD.
    Be assured that PgcEdit doesn't make malicious tricks on your computer!
    UPDATE: PgcEdit v7.0 uses now TSKill, by Microsoft, distributed with Windows XP, if it is available. Therefore, this problem should not occur any more under XP. On Win9X systems, PSKill is still necessary.

  • On some fast machines, the preview might be too fast, or even crash. Workaround: Enable the option "Preview -> Real time playback?". It it's still not sufficient, disable also the DirectDraw overlays, in the same menu.

  • On some dual-core machines, the new OK/Cancel dialog may crash. Workaround: Start PgcEdit. Do not load a DVD. Then disable the option "Options -> User Interface -> Play sounds with yes/no/cancel dialog boxes?".

  • There are some minor problems under Windows Vista. See the note for Vista users in the installation section above.

• Recommended programs

  All the tools listed here are free, and most of them are better than the commercial equivalents! Thanks to the freeware community!

  • Essential tools
    • DVD Decrypter, by Lightning UK! Though discontinued, it is still the best ripper around.
    • VobBlanker, by Jsoto. Handy to remove unwanted material from your DVD.
    • MenuShrink, by Jeanl. Use it to convert your DVD menus to still frames, and regain disc space.
    • DVD Shrink (download link) Still the best DVD compressor around!
    • DVDSubEdit, by Jeanl. Modify your subtitles without having to demux and remux the VOB files!
    • FixVTS, by Jeanl. Use it to normalize a badly authored VOB or DVD.
    • ImgBurn, by Lightning UK! The best ISO burning tool! Needed to burn a DVD with PgcEdit.

  • Useful tools
    • PGCDemux, by Jsoto. The best DVD demultiplexer!
    • Muxman, by Mpucoder. The best DVD multiplexer!
    • DVDStyler, by Alex Thüring. To create your own menus.
    • IfoEdit and VobEdit, by Derrow. Powerful IFO and VOB monitors, now discontinued. Not for beginners!

Have fun!
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